Social computing in business is something we had been discussing a while back. Mainstream business is slow to adapt to new tools to enable great communication internally, partly from lack of technical knowledge but also from not understanding the importance of latent knowledge inherent in the organisation. A great post over at “The Obvious” got me thinking about it again. Well worth a read.

This weekend kicked off a successful BarCamp in Sydney. A first for Australia. For the first one it had a good turn out with a number of interesting discussions. A few heated debates, a few talks about the startup life and one talk that cruised pretty well over my head. Congrats to Russ and everyone for putting it together. I’m looking forward to the next one.

For those who came (or those interested) I have uploaded the presentation I had put together on Identity 2.0 and OpenID. It’s brief and only intended as an introduction so I was happy to see a good debate around it. There seems like a lot of sceptics although certainly not surprising being so important to the online experience. Download the PDF (3.55Mb)